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Safekeeping

by

KAREN ZELAS
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BOOK LAUNCH 

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2024
UBS Canty
5.30 for 6pm
to be launched by Sally Blundell 
published by Quentin Wilson Publishing

Available now in bookstores and on request.

Also at quentinwilsonpublishing.com  
from the author at [email protected]
on request at libraries

'Rebecca Eaton returns with a stunning procedural drama.' 
Fast paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama is set in Otautahi Christchurch and follows Rebecca through her assistance to a surrogate mother, her desire to protect a newborn, while dealing with stressors in her own life. Professional and personal lines become blurred as she tries to protect those she loves and those she represents. Rebecca tussles with her responsibility to protect tamariki.
​This page-turner leaves us asking, 'Who does the law really protect?'

​​Book launch

Thursday 25 July 2024 

Tautoru/TSB Space, Tūranga

60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch

​                       5.30 - 7pm                      
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​​Pūkeko Publications is delighted to bring you GAIL INGRAM’s new poetry collection

anthology (n.) a collection of  flowers

The launch features Guest Poets Erik Kennedy, Joanna Preston and Rata Ingram, 
with Gail Ingram accompanied by Geoff Lowe on taonga puoro. 

anthology (n.) a collection of flowers  displays Gail Ingram’s multiple talents and expertise and is aesthetically beautiful and inspiring. The playfulness of her words, the skilful layering of ideas, her verbal trickery, are woven through with intense emotion. Many poems convey stories that together create a life. Others show Ingram’s closeness to nature and the similarities in the life cycles of humans and plants. Readers will learn about some of our lesser-known native flowers and take pleasure in the natural world of Aotearoa New Zealand via the lens of poetry. 

Order your copies today! (See below)

Gail Ingram
 Poet 

In the summer of 2023 at 57 years of age, Gail Ingram walked the length of the Te Araroa South Island with her husband. It was both one of the most joyful and most difficult adventures she has undertaken. 


Size of book 165 x 230mm; pages 115
Over eighty coloured botanic photographs accompany the poems in anthology (n.) a collection of flowers. These have been taken mainly by Gail Ingram while tramping Aotearoa New Zealand’s mountainous tracks. 

Gail Ingram is an award-winning writer, creative-writing teacher and editor from Ōtautahi. anthology (n.) a collection of flowers is her third collection. Her sell-out second collection, Some Bird, was released in 2023. Winner of both Caselberg Poetry Prize and NZPS International Poetry Competitions, her poetry and short fiction have appeared widely across Aotearoa and around the world in publications such as Poetry Aotearoa, Landfall, The Spinoff and Cordite Poetry Review. 

In this most recent book, the genre of poetry goes beyond the traditional by including many coloured illustrations and interesting text layout. It is wide-ranging in its themes of social and natural history and the complexities of living in Aotearoa in the 21st century. At the same time it taps into a long tradition of nature poets, such as Emily Dickenson, William Wordsworth and Robert Frost. 

‘Gail Ingram’s 'anthology’ is part field guide to the plants of Aotearoa New Zealand, part personal history, and part fantastic coming-of-age-novel, distilled to its essence as only poetry can be,’  says JOANNA PRESTON (poet, editor, winner of the Ockham NZ Book Awards). 

ALISON GLENNY (poet, author of Bird Collector, winner of Kathleen Grattan Award and longlisted for the Ockham Award in 2022):  'The collection’s focus on native plants naturally leads towards topics of colonisation, place and belonging. Similarly, the multiple names given to plants (in Te Reo Māori, botanical Latin and vernacular English) point to their position within contrasting systems of knowledge … [T]he poems are centred on Ōtautahi and, in particular, the poet’s home in the Heathcote Valley. Forsaking the scientific reluctance to anthropomorphise, Ingram unashamedly gives voices to the plants in her collection, matching their distinctive adaptations and distinguishing features to human concerns and personalities. 

‘The metaphorical contribution that flowering plants make to our lives is acknowledged by the division of the collection into five parts named for parts of their lifecycle — ‘Roots’, ‘Breathing Light’, ‘Flowering’, ‘Going to Seed, ‘Regeneration’.'

Truly, this is a book that will "nourish the soul, delight the eye and stimulate the imagination". 

Order your copies today. 
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​Size 165 x 230mm; pages 114
Retail price: NZD30.00 per copy
                        +  $10.00 postage within NZ
or collect at book launch in Christchurch, 25 July 2024 (Launch details above)
Payment by direct credit: Account 010797 0283318 00
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and we will get back to you promptly:
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Ruth Todd of Bookenz ​at Plains FM
interviewing Karen Zelas
about her recently released book of poetry, Threads 

Listen here:         https://plainsfm.org.nz/Prog/bookenz

See more   HERE

​book launch: 

tŪranga central library, Cathedral Square, christchurch

17 November 2022 from 5.30

​See further information   HERE

Book launch: transitional Cathedral, 1 november 2022

​see more  here
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Poetry 
​See trailer here
Purchase copies here
 

Lucy Barge is 17 years old, already a published and prize-winning poet, a musician, and with a flair for design. Her poetry surprises; it is sophisticated, even precocious.
 
This is Lucy’s first collection of poetry, designed with an eye for the word upon the page to an extent rare in a young woman of her age.

Lucy Barge uses language not only to ease the rub of her interior self against the external world, but also so others may find solace and support navigating the challenges and anxieties of their teenage years. She has stepped into the river and come out the other side. 

This debut collection is honest, fresh, shocking and gives up sharp bright poems that reward reading again and again. Five of these poems have won or been placed in competitions.


AWAY WITH US was launched in Timaru on 5 November 2022 by Owen Marshall.



Poet Gail Ingram has said: ‘Lucy’s poetry is written with the technical assurance of someone twice her age. Bullies are ‘lice’ in one poem; in another the narrator is ‘raw as a sliced onion’. Everyday objects – teacups, sanitizer, clocks and swings – are examined with the intensity of words cut back to their barest and charged with anxiety. Words are broken into sound – ‘thru umm ing’ and ‘cry ing’, adding intensity and depth. Lucy manages line-breaks like a pro.’                                                           – Gail Ingram
 
‘Lucy Barge writes with striking and aching honesty, tenderness and defiance. She gathers all the learnings from her own coming of age to deliver a confident and generous debut collection.                                                                          – Emma Shi
 
ISBN: 978-0-473-58894-6 (Softcover)
Poetry   Mental health   Adolescence   Bullying
Pages: 97, b & w
Cover design: Lucy Barge
Size: 14.5 x 21 cms
RRP: $25.00               Wholesale: $15.00
 

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For details about  'LEGACY' and 'resolutions'

      click     Here

Place orders    here

read first 4 chapters of 'Resolutions'    here

Double Book Launch and Readings
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​Many thanks to all who made the double launch of
                     Legacy by Robynanne Milford 
and
                     Resolutions by Karen Zelas 
such an enjoyable evening. A capacity crowd, Otago wines, Delicious food from The Catering Belle.
Thanks to Tūranga for their support in allowing us to use their wonderful Spark Place meeting facility.

Two such radically different books added interest and texture to the evening. Legacy presenting poetry and artworks, and Resolutions being a literary crime story set in New Zealand. Both Robynanne and Karen read from their new books.

Thanks to Sally Blundell (Journalist, writer and this year's Reviewer of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards) who launched  Resolutions with insightful comments, and Grant Banbury (Artist and Art Consultant) who launched and provided a context for Legacy. 

Thanks to Janet Wainscott and John Yarrall, and also to those who helped helped with setting up and clearing away, serving drinks and generally making things run smoothly.


                 

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